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On the Performance Gain of NOMA over OMA in Uplink Communication Systems
In this paper, we investigate and reveal the ergodic sum-rate gain (ESG) of
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) over orthogonal multiple access (OMA) in
uplink cellular communication systems. A base station equipped with a
single-antenna, with multiple antennas, and with massive antenna arrays is
considered both in single-cell and multi-cell deployments. In particular, in
single-antenna systems, we identify two types of gains brought about by NOMA:
1) a large-scale near-far gain arising from the distance discrepancy between
the base station and users; 2) a small-scale fading gain originating from the
multipath channel fading. Furthermore, we reveal that the large-scale near-far
gain increases with the normalized cell size, while the small-scale fading gain
is a constant, given by = 0.57721 nat/s/Hz, in Rayleigh fading
channels. When extending single-antenna NOMA to -antenna NOMA, we prove that
both the large-scale near-far gain and small-scale fading gain achieved by
single-antenna NOMA can be increased by a factor of for a large number of
users. Moreover, given a massive antenna array at the base station and
considering a fixed ratio between the number of antennas, , and the number
of users, , the ESG of NOMA over OMA increases linearly with both and
. We then further extend the analysis to a multi-cell scenario. Compared to
the single-cell case, the ESG in multi-cell systems degrades as NOMA faces more
severe inter-cell interference due to the non-orthogonal transmissions.
Besides, we unveil that a large cell size is always beneficial to the ergodic
sum-rate performance of NOMA in both single-cell and multi-cell systems.
Numerical results verify the accuracy of the analytical results derived and
confirm the insights revealed about the ESG of NOMA over OMA in different
scenarios.Comment: 51 pages, 7 figures, invited paper, submitted to IEEE Transactions on
Communication
Performance Analysis of SSK-NOMA
In this paper, we consider the combination between two promising techniques:
space-shift keying (SSK) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for future
radio access networks. We analyze the performance of SSK-NOMA networks and
provide a comprehensive analytical framework of SSK-NOMA regarding bit error
probability (BEP), ergodic capacity and outage probability. It is worth
pointing out all analysis also stand for conventional SIMO-NOMA networks. We
derive closed-form exact average BEP (ABEP) expressions when the number of
users in a resource block is equal to i.e., . Nevertheless, we analyze the
ABEP of users when the number of users is more than i.e., , and derive
bit-error-rate (BER) union bound since the error propagation due to iterative
successive interference canceler (SIC) makes the exact analysis intractable.
Then, we analyze the achievable rate of users and derive exact ergodic capacity
of the users so the ergodic sum rate of the system in closed-forms. Moreover,
we provide the average outage probability of the users exactly in the
closed-form. All derived expressions are validated via Monte Carlo simulations
and it is proved that SSK-NOMA outperforms conventional NOMA networks in terms
of all performance metrics (i.e., BER, sum rate, outage). Finally, the effect
of the power allocation (PA) on the performance of SSK-NOMA networks is
investigated and the optimum PA is discussed under BER and outage constraints
Interference Management in Heterogeneous Networks with Blind Transmitters
Future multi-tier communication networks will require enhanced network
capacity and reduced overhead. In the absence of Channel State Information
(CSI) at the transmitters, Blind Interference Alignment (BIA) and Topological
Interference Management (TIM) can achieve optimal Degrees of Freedom (DoF),
minimising network's overhead. In addition, Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
(NOMA) can increase the sum rate of the network, compared to orthogonal radio
access techniques currently adopted by 4G networks. Our contribution is two
interference management schemes, BIA and a hybrid TIM-NOMA scheme, employed in
heterogeneous networks by applying user-pairing and Kronecker Product
representation. BIA manages inter- and intra-cell interference by antenna
selection and appropriate message scheduling. The hybrid scheme manages
intra-cell interference based on NOMA and inter-cell interference based on TIM.
We show that both schemes achieve at least double the rate of TDMA. The hybrid
scheme always outperforms TDMA and BIA in terms of Degrees of Freedom (DoF).
Comparing the two proposed schemes, BIA achieves more DoF than TDMA under
certain restrictions, and provides better Bit-Error-Rate (BER) and sum rate
performance to macrocell users, whereas the hybrid scheme improves the
performance of femtocell users.Comment: 30 pages, 18 figure
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